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"… The elections of the USCCB officers and committee chairmen suggest a certain ambivalence: “business-as usual” in the vote for conference president, a potential change in perspective in the choice for vice-president, and possible problems in the conference’s relationship with the Holy See in the surprising choice of chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy (BCL)…
Surprise move…
Just before the vote for chairman-elect of the BCL, Cardinal George announced that he would resign as chairman because of the demands of his new office as vice-president; and he proposed that the bishops select a chairman to begin a new three-year term immediately. (This was a departure from the practice of appointing an interim chairman to complete an unexpired term, then electing a permanent chairman at the next meeting of the conference.) The bishops accepted Cardinal George’s proposal.
In a very rare move, a nomination was proposed from the floor. Bishop John Kinney of St. Cloud rose to nominate Bishop Donald Trautman of Erie, and read the names of five bishops who seconded the nomination: Bishop Gerald Wilkerson, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles; Bishop Donald Pelotte, Gallup; Bishop Victor Balke, Crookston; Bishop Alexander Salazar, ordained November 4 as auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles; and Bishop Stephen Blaire, Stockton.
"No bishop has been a more vocal proponent of “inclusive language” than Bishop Trautman, who was chairman of the BCL from 1993-1996, a period of great controversy and extended debates over the proposed revisions by ICEL of the “Sacramentary” (Roman Missal), and the revised translation of the Lectionary. The Holy See rejected the ICEL “Sacramentary” in 1998. Bishop Trautman is on the editorial board of “We Believe!”, a group of progressive liturgists organized in 1994 to oppose “roll backs” in liturgical reform.
Even as head of the Doctrine Committee (2000-2003), Bishop Trautman publicly criticized the Holy See for what he terms “interference” in liturgical matters.
Writing in America magazine (March 4, 2000), Bishop Trautman implied that the Holy See’s concerns about ICEL undermined the Second Vatican Council:
In his recent letter [to ICEL chairman], Cardinal Medina states that vernacular texts must be accurate and fully convey the content of the original Latin text. Cardinal Medina’s statement must, however, be placed in the context of the insistence of the Second Vatican Council and Pope Paul VI that these translations into living languages would become ‘the voice of the church’ at prayer. However, recent directives of the congregation aimed at ICEL’s work appear to require a word-for-word, syntax-for-syntax correspondence between the Latin and the English texts. The congregation has implied on several occasions that strictly literal translation is the primary goal, and that if the vernacular texts cannot always be immediately understood by those who hear them, explanations can be given afterwards in the homily or by catechesis. Does not such an approach run counter to the great hope of the Second Vatican Council and of Pope Paul VI?
Bishop Trautman’s America article elicited an unprecedented response from Cardinal Jorge Medina, then prefect of the CDW, to correct misstatements.
But Bishop Trautman has remained unswerving in his public criticism of the Vatican worship congregation and of any bishops or scholars who have supported translation principles enunciated in Liturgiam authenticam, the Holy See’s 2001 instruction on translation…"
"…But Bishop Trautman has remained unswerving in his public criticism of the Vatican worship congregation and of any bishops or scholars who have supported translation principles enunciated in Liturgiam authenticam, the Holy See’s 2001 instruction on translation.
At the October 2003 meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (FDLC), which was keynoted by Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the CDW, and addressed by Cardinal George, Bishop Trautman received the FDLC’s “Frederick McManus Award”. In his acceptance speech, Bishop Trautman urged FDLC members to persist in their resistance to “Vatican interference” and said that liturgists must overcome the influence of the those he believes to be retrograde and not consistent with the “spirit” of post-conciliar reform…
“The Erie bishop is recognized as a leader of opposition to the Holy See’s actions on liturgical matters, and as the strongest advocate of the old-guard “progressive” liturgical establishment that had reigned unopposed until the 1990s. …”
adoremus.org/1204USCCBMeeting.html
Surprise move…
Just before the vote for chairman-elect of the BCL, Cardinal George announced that he would resign as chairman because of the demands of his new office as vice-president; and he proposed that the bishops select a chairman to begin a new three-year term immediately. (This was a departure from the practice of appointing an interim chairman to complete an unexpired term, then electing a permanent chairman at the next meeting of the conference.) The bishops accepted Cardinal George’s proposal.
In a very rare move, a nomination was proposed from the floor. Bishop John Kinney of St. Cloud rose to nominate Bishop Donald Trautman of Erie, and read the names of five bishops who seconded the nomination: Bishop Gerald Wilkerson, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles; Bishop Donald Pelotte, Gallup; Bishop Victor Balke, Crookston; Bishop Alexander Salazar, ordained November 4 as auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles; and Bishop Stephen Blaire, Stockton.
"No bishop has been a more vocal proponent of “inclusive language” than Bishop Trautman, who was chairman of the BCL from 1993-1996, a period of great controversy and extended debates over the proposed revisions by ICEL of the “Sacramentary” (Roman Missal), and the revised translation of the Lectionary. The Holy See rejected the ICEL “Sacramentary” in 1998. Bishop Trautman is on the editorial board of “We Believe!”, a group of progressive liturgists organized in 1994 to oppose “roll backs” in liturgical reform.
Even as head of the Doctrine Committee (2000-2003), Bishop Trautman publicly criticized the Holy See for what he terms “interference” in liturgical matters.
Writing in America magazine (March 4, 2000), Bishop Trautman implied that the Holy See’s concerns about ICEL undermined the Second Vatican Council:
In his recent letter [to ICEL chairman], Cardinal Medina states that vernacular texts must be accurate and fully convey the content of the original Latin text. Cardinal Medina’s statement must, however, be placed in the context of the insistence of the Second Vatican Council and Pope Paul VI that these translations into living languages would become ‘the voice of the church’ at prayer. However, recent directives of the congregation aimed at ICEL’s work appear to require a word-for-word, syntax-for-syntax correspondence between the Latin and the English texts. The congregation has implied on several occasions that strictly literal translation is the primary goal, and that if the vernacular texts cannot always be immediately understood by those who hear them, explanations can be given afterwards in the homily or by catechesis. Does not such an approach run counter to the great hope of the Second Vatican Council and of Pope Paul VI?
Bishop Trautman’s America article elicited an unprecedented response from Cardinal Jorge Medina, then prefect of the CDW, to correct misstatements.
But Bishop Trautman has remained unswerving in his public criticism of the Vatican worship congregation and of any bishops or scholars who have supported translation principles enunciated in Liturgiam authenticam, the Holy See’s 2001 instruction on translation…"
"…But Bishop Trautman has remained unswerving in his public criticism of the Vatican worship congregation and of any bishops or scholars who have supported translation principles enunciated in Liturgiam authenticam, the Holy See’s 2001 instruction on translation.
At the October 2003 meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (FDLC), which was keynoted by Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the CDW, and addressed by Cardinal George, Bishop Trautman received the FDLC’s “Frederick McManus Award”. In his acceptance speech, Bishop Trautman urged FDLC members to persist in their resistance to “Vatican interference” and said that liturgists must overcome the influence of the those he believes to be retrograde and not consistent with the “spirit” of post-conciliar reform…
“The Erie bishop is recognized as a leader of opposition to the Holy See’s actions on liturgical matters, and as the strongest advocate of the old-guard “progressive” liturgical establishment that had reigned unopposed until the 1990s. …”
adoremus.org/1204USCCBMeeting.html